I am licensed clinical psychologist in California (PSY 36181). I received my PhD in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology and a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology. With over a decade of clinical experience, I have provided individual, couples, group and family psychotherapy in private practice, community mental health centers, residential, partial hospitalization(PHP), intensive outpatient (IOP/OP) treatment programs, and charter school settings. I have worked with children, adolescents, and adults spanning a range of socio-cultural contexts, subjectivities and occupational backgrounds.

I use a relationally focused, psychodynamic psychoanalytic informed approach to listen to how deep-rooted beliefs, memories, current dilemmas in daily life, social-cultural factors, and emotional responses are communicating through the expression of psychological symptoms. In my listening practice, my attention is multi-directional and considers how being, seeing, coping, and assuming are both formed and impacted within, and beyond, one's immediate family system. I attend to imprints of inherited implicit and explicit trauma. This includes staying close to the feelings that emerge as it relates to experiencing control and the lack thereof.

Examining how forms of self-preservation and identity formation has developed over time can help uncover inner conflicts, compromises, defenses, and new found gifts. In this discovery of starting to notice, instead of identifying with, what internal states may be rigid or porous, a clearer understanding of past and current relational patterns can unfold. This includes looking more carefully at what may be already known, or named, in addition to making contact with what has remained out of one’s awareness, or acceptance.

Following the language of the unconscious is not only limited to the inner life of dreams, but is a continual communication speaking through bodily symptoms, language and gestures, in between the gaps of what is not being said, and the spectrum of emotions that get constellated in the therapeutic dyad. These reveals allow for making contact with one’s personal histories in the present. The things that are carried from family histories and systemic ruptures can have a place to land, and to understand.

Through the therapeutic process of un-editing thoughts, feelings, bodily responses, memories, needs, losses, and wishes, I support the unique process of unearthing avoidances, contradictions, conflicts, ambivalence, desires, and the relational ruptures that have betrayed the basic need for epistemic trust. My specializations include developmental and transitional life stages, mood and anxiety disorders, obsessional preoccupations, disordered eating, destructive compulsions, co-occurring disorders, existential quandaries, interpersonal conflicts, creative/artistic impasses, and dreams analysis. I hold a certificate in Jungian Studies in Clinical Practice from the C.G. Jung Institute in Los Angeles and have post-graduate education in psychoanalytic theory at the Wright Institute Los Angeles. My training has also included working with specific populations that include retired NFL players, emerging/early adulthood, and marginalized communities. I am a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and it’s Division 39 - Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology.

My creative and academic writing practice incorporates critical theory, psychological perspectives, and inquiries towards the poetics of the contemporary art. I have presented both nationally and internationally on topics addressing feminine shame, symbolic communication in the imagination, experiential psychoanalytic approaches towards building social awareness in art spaces, clinical case studies, and qualitative relational research methodologies. This includes speaking at colleges, universities, and conferences such as International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education, the London Arts -Based Research Centre and Hauser + Wirth NYC.